THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT AT 30 -- PART 12

VOICES OF VICTORY, CELEBRATION OF CIVIL RIGHTS

AND REMAINING CHALLENGES 

Craig Kennedy, program coordinator for Open Doors Organization, has used a manual wheelchair for mobility for 25 years due to a T-12 SCI. 

The Chicago-based non-profit’s mission is to create a society in which all persons with disabilities have the same consumer opportunities as everyone else. 

Open Doors sponsors studies demonstrating the buying power of PWD, operates 465 accessible vans/taxis in Chicago and works on accessibility policy for 74 domestic and foreign air carriers. 

Kennedy said the biggest obstacle to ADA acceptance is that most people don't understand what it is, so they are afraid of it.